"The US has achieved precisely nothing with its covert and overt attacks and "wars" in the Middle East."

Totally agree. The U.S. really needs to butt out. Gee, it was only 25 years ago that the US was training and providing weapons to the rebels in Afghanistan. One of those rebels was called Osama bin Laden. And we all know how that turned out.....

Actually, Hashimoto is right. Incidents of rape in Japan were particularly egregious during the spring of 1946. In Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of WWII, John Dower says that “the number of rapes and assaults on Japanese women were around 40 per day... and then rose to an average of 330 a day in early 1946.” on April 4, fifty GIs broke into a hospital in Omori prefecture and raped 77 women, including a woman who had just given birth, killing the two-day-old baby by tossing it onto the floor. And on April 11, forty US soldiers cut off the phone lines of one of Nagoya’s city blocks and entered a number of houses simultaneously, “raping many girls and women between the ages of 10 and 55 years.”

China sells weapons to anyone. When Hezbullah attacked Israel in 2006, it used Chinese missiles. Iran and other Muslim insurgent groups rely on Chinese weapons too. When Beijing says that its military spending has contributed to global peace and stability, that is a total farce.